Social Relevance of Embryo SelectionEmbryo selection otherwise known as Designer babies raises a number of social, legal and ethical implications. Embryo selection is when the genetic characteristics of an embryo are determined in the early stages of development. This makes it possible to determine whether a fetus is male or female. Embryo selection has also been used before implantation in the womb to enabled thousands of parents to avoid passing on serious genetic diseases to their offspring. It can also be used so that parents can select a tissue type before implantation to be the same as a sibling, who is critically ill and is relying on possible implants or blood transfusions from the designer baby. Ethical issues are tried to be avoided by limiting the number of embryos implanted and prohibits sex selection for nonmedical reasons. The selection of traits is perceived to be desirable but is would eventually end up to diminish variability within the gene pool, the raw material of natural selection.

Embryo selection can reduce the chances of a baby being born with several serious genetic diseases like Down’s Syndrome & cystic fibrosis. Embryo selection for gender can eliminate gender specific genetic diseases that may run in the family like breast cancer and haemophilia. Scientists can also produce a savior sibling, a child who is born to provide an organ/ cell/ cord blood to a sibling that is affected with a fatal or debilitating disease. The savior sibling is conceived through in vitro fertilization. Fertilized zygotes are tested for genetic compatibility (human leucocyte antigen (HLA) typing), using preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), and only zygotes that are compatible with the existing child are implanted. Zygotes are also tested to make sure they are free of the original genetic disease. A revolutionary technique called 'pre-implantation process' is used to screen embryos for any genetic disease and only the disease free embryos are...

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...Philosophy Essay Is the human embryo a ‘Potential Person’ or a ‘Person with Potential’? For centuries, reproduction was considered to be the work of nature. People had no control over it because they did not have enough information about the process of reproduction to be able to moderate the number of children they had. The mentality of reproduction letting “nature” decide has changed because of advances in reproductive techniques. Nowadays human life can begin, not just in a woman’s womb, but also in a petri dish. Ova can be extracted from a woman through surgery and fertilized with semen and the resulting embryo can develop for some time in the laboratory. This process is called in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF/ET) This process has been developed so that couples with infertility problems can have children together anyway instead of adopting. The ethical problem is that, when this process is carried out surplus embryos are created and frozen just in case the couple would want to have children again in the future; this is done to avoid a second surgery on the woman. If, within a period of time, the embryos are not used, they are either destroyed or else donated for experimentation. This experimentation has resulted in experts being able to identify embryos which have genetic diseases and so when these are identified just before implantation back into the womb, only the...

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Dr Marie Montessori said "It follows that the new-born child has to do a piece of formative work which corresponds in the psychological sphere to the one just done by the embryo in the physical sphere. Before him there is a period of life different from that which he led in the womb; yet still unlike that of the man he is to become."
Dr Marie Montessori termed the new born child’s as a spiritual embryo .
The embryo has all the potential to attain the norm of a species in a preplaned environment .Here the term spritural means
• Intelligence
• Knowledge
• Self realization
• Memory
• Potential
Apart from potential all the other factors are at an embryonic stage i.e need to be developed
She has said that the psycho embryo of a child needs a womb similar to the physical one to develop and grow to its full potential and it is the preplaned environment that acts an a womb for the psyhic embryo to flourish.
The embryo has all the potential or the capacity to attain the level of a full grown species in a preplanned environment. Similarly the physco embryo also needs a woob to develop and that is the environment that is provided to the child .All the attributes of the personality are there in the womb that need to be developed . The will power of the child helps in building the psychic embryo .
Example…the child wil become what he wants to become....

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The chick embryo – past, present and future as a model system in developmental biology
The embryo of the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus) holds the record as the animal with the longest continuous history as an experimental model for studies in developmental biology, spanning more than 2 Millenia. Throughout this time, it attracted great naturalists, artists, philosophers, and pioneers of biology and stimulated them to think about the most fundamental questions on generation and life like no other organism has ever done, except the human. The ancient Egyptians are documented as having opened hens’ eggs at different periods during incubation to observe the progress of embryo development, and by around 300 BC Aristotle undertook careful studies of the morphology of the embryo (as much as he could without the aid of magnifying devices); this can be considered as the ﬁrst ‘scientiﬁc’ study of embryo development and his work referred to by his followers right up to the 19th Century (Needham, 1959). After the mediaeval ‘Dark Ages’, the resurgence of an interest in Anatomy and embryo development in the Renaissance attracted ﬁgures including Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519), Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605) and Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente (1537–1619) to return to the study of the embryo within the egg. At this time the debate between Preformation and...

...﻿What moral status does the human embryo have?
The moral status of the embryo is a controversial and complex issue. The main viewpoints are outlined below.
1. The embryo has full moral status from fertilization onwards
Either the embryo is viewed as a person whilst it is still an embryo, or it is seen as a potential person. The criteria for ‘personhood’ are notoriously unclear; different people define what makes a person in different ways.
Arguments for this view
Arguments against this view
Development from a fertilized egg into to baby is a continuous process and any attempt to pinpoint when personhood begins is arbitrary. A human embryo is a human being in the embryonic stage, just as an infant is a human being in the infant stage. Although an embryo does not currently have the characteristics of a person, it will become a person and should be given the respect and dignity of a person.
An early embryo that has not yet implanted into the uterus does not have the psychological, emotional or physical properties that we associate with being a person. It therefore does not have any interests to be protected and we can use it for the benefit of patients (who ARE persons).
The embryo cannot develop into a child without being transferred to a woman’s uterus. It needs external help to develop. Even then, the probability that embryos...

... At birth, the human being’s physical development is (more or less) complete
 However, Dr Montessori said that the new born child is psychologically still in an embryonic state – his inner development is incomplete.
 For this reason, she said that the human being is a ‘spiritual embryo’ when he is born.
 After birth, the child’s task is to create him/herself.
 The child does this through his interactions with his environment, and therefore, we must provide the child with an environment which is carefully prepared for and suited to the child’s needs at this early stage of development - just as the womb is perfectly suited to the child’s developmental needs in the first embryonic stage.
 The child’s personality and inner development (including intelligence, etc) are vulnerable to negative influences.
 Just as neglect of the physical embryo is detrimental to its development and wellbeing, so too neglecting the developmental needs of the child (spiritual embryo) in the early formative years will cause lasting damage to the child’s inner psychological development.
 The child needs an environment that is safe, rich in stimulation, and is perfectly suited to their developmental needs. These needs are not the same as the adult’s needs.
 During the formative years from birth to six, the child has a mind which is different to ours.
 It is an absorbent mind, capable of incredible powers of absorption, which is just...

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1. Description of the issue, some history given behind its development.
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...Discuss the importance of recruitment and selection of sales people. What are some of the problems associated with selecting the wrong person for the job?
Sales people are the front line of many businesses in the sales division. If a business has a shop front where customers come and have to inquire about potential purchases, current purchases or prior purchases then more often than not a salesperson is their first port of call. While it may appear that technology and self service are up and coming replacements for salespeople there is still definitely reason to employ qualified staff. It is for this reason that the recruitment and selection process is an important part of any business when hiring sales people. Selecting the wrong people for the job can result in problems such as staff turnover issues, customer complaints, costs associated with rehiring and even longer term issues such as a company suffering from disrepute.
Recruitment can be defined as the process of finding potential job applicants, telling them about the company and getting them to apply (Hair et al. 2009). Essentially this process should not just narrow applicants down to potential employees, but be narrowing the applicants down to potentially good employees. Hair et al. (2009) also notes that the entire sales division ultimately depends on a successful recruiting approach. In essence there are five steps in the recruitment process:
1. Conduct a job analysis...